Archive for January, 2000
Perfect Storm, The
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| Taglines: | 1: Feel Its Fury 2: In the Fall of 1991, the “Andrea Gail” left Gloucester, Mass. and headed for the fishing grounds of the North Atlantic. Two weeks later, an event took place that had never occurred in recorded history. 3: No one was prepared for this storm 4: The storm is coming. 5: There’s only love Christina, only love. |
| Plot Summary: | In October 1991, a confluence of weather conditions combined to form a killer storm in the North Atlantic. Caught in the storm was the sword-fishing boat Andrea Gail. Magnificent foreshadowing and anticipation fill this true-life drama while minute details of the fishing boats, their gear and the weather are juxtaposed with the sea adventure. |
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Chocolat
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| Taglines: | 1: …and the world is still indulging! 2: One Taste Is All It Takes 3: One taste is not enough 4: What do you see? |
| Plot Summary: | 1960, small town France. Vianne Rocher and her pre-teen daughter move into town and open a chocolate shop just as lent is beginning. The town’s small-minded mayor can’t accept this and does his best to shut her down, but her warm personality and incredible chocolates manage to win over many townsfolk. Things get shaken up even more when a group of river drifters, led by Roux, stop into town (to the even greater distress of the mayor) and Vianne takes up with him. Meanwhile, she’s been helping Josephine out of her abusive marriage and her equally freethinking landlord, Amande Voisin, get together with her grandson, Luc, whose mother doesn’t approve of Amande’s ways. |
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Next Best Thing, The
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| Taglines: | 1: Best friends make the best mistakes. 2: He was smart, handsome and single. When her biological clock was running out, he was… the next best thing. |
| Plot Summary: | A comedy-drama about best friends - one a straight woman, Abbie (Madonna), the other a gay man, Robert (Rupert Everett) - who decide to have a child together. Five years later, Abbie falls in love with a straight man and wants to move away with her and Robert’s little boy Sam, and a nasty custody battle ensues. |
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Snatch.
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| Taglines: | 1: Now you see it, now you don’t! 2: Stealin’ Stones and Breakin’ Bones 3: Stealing stones is hazardous. |
| Plot Summary: | Turkish and his close friend/accomplice Tommy get pulled into the world of match fixing by the notorious Brick Top. Things get complicated when the boxer they had lined up gets the shit kicked out of him by Pitt, a ‘pikey’ ( slang for an Irish Gypsy)- who comes into the equation after Turkish, an unlicensed boxing promoter wants to buy a caravan off the Irish Gypsies. They then try to convince Pitt not only to fight for them, but to lose for them too. Whilst all this is going on, a huge diamond heist takes place, and a fistful of motley characters enter the story, including ‘Cousin Avi’, ‘Boris The Blade’, ‘Franky Four Fingers’ and ‘Bullet Tooth Tony’. Things go from bad to worse as it all becomes about the money, the guns, and the damned dog! |
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Weight of Water, The
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| Taglines: | 1: Hell hath no fury… |
| Plot Summary: | A newspaper photographer, Jean, researches the lurid and sensational axe murder of two women in 1873 as an editorial tie-in with a brutal modern double murder. She discovers a cache of papers that appear to give an account of the murders by an eyewitness. The plot weaves between the narrative of the eyewitness and Jean’s private struggle with jealousies and suspicions as her marriage teeters. |
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Battlefield Earth: A Saga of the Year 3000
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| Taglines: | 1: On May 12, We Fight Back. 2: Prepare For Battle 3: Prepare to go Psychlo 4: Take Back The Planet |
| Plot Summary: | In the year 3000, man is no match for the Psychlo’s, a greedy, manipulative race of aliens on a quest for ultimate profit. Led by the seductive and powerful Terl (Travolta), the Psychlo’s are stripping Earth clean of its natural resources, using the broken remnants of humanity as slaves. What is left of the human race has descended into a near primitive state, believing the invaders to be demons and technology to be evil. After humanity has all but given up any hope of freeing themselves from alien oppression, a young man named Tyler (Pepper) decides to leave his desolate home high in the Rocky Mountains to discover the truth, whereupon he is captured and enslaved. It is then that he decides to fight back, leading his fellow man in one final struggle for freedom. |
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Road Trip
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| Taglines: | 1: Its good. 2: Love is never having to say you’re sorry you made a sex tape with a woman then mailed it to your girlfriend. 3: The greatest college tradition of all time. |
| Plot Summary: | A group of raucous, college buds living the Frat life decide to have a blowout with a Road Trip of insane proportions. Dad’s car, hard partying, nubile and Nubian Princesses, a boa constrictor and Tom Green make for a great trip down comedy lane. |
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Pay It Forward
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| Taglines: | 1: #1 It has to be something that really helps people. #2 Something they can’t do by themselves. #3 I do it for them, they do it for three other people. These are the rules when you pay it forward on October 20th. 2: A movie from the heart that connects with the heart. 3: Have You Heard? 4: Is it possible for one idea to change the world? 5: Some favours you are not allowed to pay back. 6: Sometimes The Simplest Idea Can Make The Biggest Difference. 7: When someone does you a big favor, don’t pay it back… Pay It Forward |
| Plot Summary: | A school social studies assignment leads to social changes that spread from city-to-city. Assigned to come up with some idea that will improve mankind, a young boy (Haley Joel Osment) decides that if he can do three good deeds for someone and they in turn can “pay it forward” and so forth, positive changes can occur. What appears to initially be a failure, is indeed a success that is not immediately known but is traced backwards by a reporter who is a benefactor. The initial recipients of the boy are a drug addict (James Cavaziel), his badly scarred school teacher (Kevin Spacey), and his alcoholic mother (Helen Hunt). While physically and mentally scarred by past events, the teacher is not the only one bearing scars. The young boy fears his mother’s fate, particularly at his brutal, alcoholic father’s (Jon Bon Jovi) hands. The mother also bears scars from her childhood with a homeless, alcoholic mother (Angie Dickinson). |
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Essex Boys
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| Taglines: | 1: Some lines should never be crossed. |
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Memento
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| Taglines: | 1: Some memories are best forgotten |
| Plot Summary: | Memento chronicles two separate stories of Leonard (Guy Pearce), a ex-insurance investigator who can no longer build new memories, as he attempts to find the murderer of his wife, which is the last thing he remembers. One story line movies forward in time while the other tells the story backwards revealing more each time. |
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